Final

After almost a whole four months of having to keep up a blog and make different writings almost every other week, I’d say that it helped me take appreciation for who and what being a journalist is. A modern day journalist will take however long to write up a story and then present it to the world, I guess I never thought about how much responsibility is put on the job.

I’m truly not sure when Dr. Smith asked the class this question but I’m pretty sure it was within the first couple days of school. It was something along the lines of “where do y’all get your news from?” Now this was right after the bombings in Kabul and almost none of the class had heard of the major disaster that Professor Smith was talking about. Now that really got me thinking and I wondered what was or when was there a change in how real journalism changed.

Back in the day, Mr. Smith has told us many times he was a journalist back in the day, but not just that it was also the job; people who held the title would actually go and attend certain events like natural disasters, political events, or international affairs. In essence Professor Smith made me realize quite a lot about the position. Not just the fact that there has been a major difference in the entirety of the job itself but also that the persuasion and “reality” of the stories being put out nowadays is honestly just plain sad. In the famous words of Bill Maher he called the internet now a “bitch session” of people just going back and forth again and again about in reality different things that are all relevant somehow.

Throughout the semester I think that having a blog and keeping up with classes, I've learned quite a bit. Mainly I want to say that I learned there is no reason for people to trust their information sources unless they can claim it is absolutely true and there is no falseness around the topic. Dr. Smith also posed the question that possibly the news “Gen-Z” our generation looks at is rather less decisive or falsified. Honestly it's probably true, and it's been proven to be true. People don't check their sources and that when false information starts to get spread amongst the youth.

Lastly I just want to add, I truthfully cannot say that there were many other classes i've ever taken that have shown me what T.A.F has taught me and that you Mr. Smith has taught me. I truly never looked at the first amendment the way your class showed me to look at it, people are given rights and are free. We honestly just forget that sometimes with how tight the world has been the last few years, but forever it's always changing.